moralizer

noun

Definition of moralizernext
1
as in preacher

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as in moralist

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Recent Examples of moralizer Fowler certainly was a moralizer, just maybe not in the way Jespersen meant. — Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moralizer
  1. preacher
  2. moralist
  3. lecturer
  4. puritan
  5. reader
  6. catechist
Noun
  • Costco ditches its Kirkland beer Pope Leo XIV, who grew up listening to popular American television preacher Archbishop Fulton Sheen, praised his fellow Illinois clergyman as an inspiration today on the eve of Sheen’s beatification.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
  • With bow and arrow in hand, Anghba finds his hunt for a wild boar across a riverbank interrupted by a raft floating downstream, as former tribespeople surround a jovial American preacher (Douglas Henshall), much to the chieftain’s chagrin.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
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  • Twenty years ago, moralists tried to strong arm a Texas private school into removing Annie Proulx’s sensitive story Brokeback Mountain from its curriculum.
    — SPIN Team, SPIN, 22 June 2026
  • Carney is a moralist, a filmmaker of fidelity—and of renunciation, depicting the romantic near-misses and what-ifs that his characters leave behind.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 29 May 2026
Definition of moralist
Noun
  • Prior to his career in politics, Gray was a small business owner and assistant lecturer at UC Merced.
    — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Working to fight back the tears The calls, text and social media messages have come nonstop since about an hour after the accident, said Chapman University lecturer Peter Weitzner, who served as an advisor and teacher to Moreno in several classes.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
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  • During and after both wars, puritans used large-scale enslavement of Native peoples to bolster their labor force and help clear land for colonial settlement.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
  • So this green dress with small spots and an oversized puritan collar was quite appropriate for its time.
    — Katherine J Igoe, InStyle, 1 July 2026
Definition of puritan
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  • Elahe Izadi and Razzan Nakhlawi write for Say More, The Post's new relationship advice column, and will be answering reader questions live while columnist Carolyn Hax is away.
    — Razzan Nakhlawi, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026
  • My students are simultaneously cerebral readers and emotional ones, and those feelings can be at odds with each other, sometimes.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of reader
Noun
  • While women cannot be ordained as priests or deacons, they are not forbidden from teaching the faith as theologians, catechists and scholars.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2026
  • Lacchin was quietly transferred to a nearby mission; his driver and a catechist at Archer’s Post, Benjamin Ekwam, was chosen to marry Sabina.
    — Washington Post, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
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